Once Barnesville-Lamar County's largest employer, the William Carter Co. will cease virtually all its operations here June 1, leaving 212 people jobless. Employees of the local distribution center here were told this morning that they will be losing their jobs. UPDATE: The outlet store in downtown Barnesville will also be shuttered, according to Carter's CFO Richard Westenberger.

gosh thats one more person in my household without a job i hope aldora keeps on kicking i got laid off from kens food in henry county there are alomost no jobs out there you got to go to the city in order to hope to get a job and thats to far to drive everyday

How stupid you are to want to blame President Obama for Carter's or any other business closing. You say vote Republican? It was the Republican that got us in this situation. Where is your Mr. Bush now? Somewhere enjoying live at our expense. Thank you Republicans way to go.................

Anon, you are 100% wrong. NAFTA was democrat president Bill Clinton's baby. He pushed for it and he signed it to law while he was Pres. This single act in history will be the straw that broke the camels back on America's economy. The true bread and butter jobs left America because of NAFTA a bill signed into law by Bill Clinton. Keep on drinking that liberal kool-aid.

You are wrong too WDM. You are always making foolish comments like you live in a fantasy world.

NAFAT was pushed by the elder Bush and supported by Democrats and Republicans equally. It was going through legislature at the time of the election of Clinton and when it crossed Clinton's desk he signed it.

At that time only Ross Perot was speaking against NAFTA, saying it would result in "a giant sucking sound" as jobs left the USA for Mexico. Both Republicans and Democrats were equally involved in pushing NAFTA during the elder Bush end of term and Clinton was more than happy to be in our political musical chair when it was signed.

This is exactly like our mortgage and banking problems today, where both parties were heavily involved in setting up the disaster.

We can never make it better if we don't all face the truth, and stop assigning the mistakes to one party or the other. The Republicans are equally, if not more, responsible because they had the most control over the 30 year period that led up to this mess.

The roach has surfaced from his crevious with his usual childish name calling and half truths. NAFTA was signed in Dec giving Clinton a full year to work it. The original NAFTA bill wouldn't pass so Clinton modified it (to protect American interest.) The democrats controlled the White House and the House of Rep's at the time NAFTA passed. They ruled the roost in Washington and just like they had the power to pass it, they had the power to defeat it but they didn't. Kinda like the same thing with Osama Bin Laden. But slander Republicans and George Bush all you want but even you cannot deny this fact...oh PingPong over in North Korea wasn't firing any rockets on GW's watch.

Actually, they didn't fire rockets during GW's tenure but they did fire missiles. Just to get the facts straight, North Korea did not fire any rocket capable of deploying satelites or nuclear warheads during GW's time in office.

I say good riddance to Carters. They enslaved uneducated local people (mostly women) to low paying, subsistence jobs and then dumped them when cheaper slaves became available offshore. We are better off without them!

I was once employed by carter's and is proud to say that carter's was a great place to work and still was until this point. The lift operators could make up to $21/hr and the regular employees make up to $17 dollars an hour with good benefits I was able to work there and go to school and move onto better employment but I reject been called uneducated and I'm sure they do as well.The 212 employees are having to reshape their whole life I pray for them and wish them only the best.

This is all a result of unfettered trade with poorer nations, including our southern NAFTA partner and the Chinese.

What always happens is wealth and jobs move from the richer trading partner to the poorer partner. The rest of us must support the people who had a job but lost it.

When the Europeans formed a trade union, they chose equally wealthy or nearly equally wealthy partners. We are fools who think only of today or what looks good on paper, and are going to get rich from the Chinese or Mexicans.

Carter's will eventually find, while they make more money in the short term outsourcing jobs, they eventually lose in the long run. When everyone here isn't working no one will be able to buy their imported crap, we'll all be at WalMart buying stuff directly from the Chinese. Carter's will eventually go bust because they will just be another source of cheap Chinese or Mexican crap, like some of the tainted Chinese baby clothes they had to recall.

This is the service and consumer based economy Ronald Regan said we should move into and that every Democrat and Republican following him supported. Enjoy it!

I'm sorry to see the 212 people losing their jobs. It doesn't matter if it was the Republicans or the Democrats that made the economy the way it is now. I don't think it was any one group of people. There are a lot of factors that caused us to be in a recession, and these 212 people losing their jobs will greatly be affected. We need to stop blaming the Republicans or Democrats for what HAS happened and work together to ensure that it DOESN'T keep happening or get WORSE! I pray for the families of those who are losing their jobs--may God bless them with some type of employment so that they may keep their homes and lives intact!

I made a comment in the other listing (Legacy). I would like to add, why all the griping about Carters? If they had packed up and left in the 50's or early 60's there is a good chance Milner would be larger than Barnesville. Carters provided a good living for alot of persons, and there was always excitment when the vacation checks and the Christmas Savings were paid. The only other plants in Barnesville City, was Smith's Furniture, and Jed Lyles Furniture. Aldora being a separate place.

Who cares a rats' patoot who started NAFTA, Bill (I didn't have sex with that woman) Clinton signed it in 1993. You can write all the checks you'd like........you will not get in trouble until you cash them without funds available. BILL JEFFERSON CLINTON....AKA MR. HILLARY wrote that check and cashed it.

NAFTA actually surfaced in the Carter years. It was being pushed by the democrats but Reagan held it at bay. Bush Sr. did his part to hold it down but it kept rearing its ugly head supported by your democratic socialist party. Then along comes Clinton and that woushing sound was all your jobs exiting the country and the gate being left open so illegal aliens could slip in and take the jobs that welfare Americans didn’t want. It is also the majority of your socialist democrats that want to turn their heads from law breakers which are illegal aliens, and allow them to stay in the country. That is OK for the welfare Americans because they prefer not to have to take those jobs and lose those free checks, Clinton ushered in the real start of the socialist movement while riding high off the accomplishments of Regan and Bush. When Jr. arrived on the scene he was faced with an attack on America and the job of keeping you turncoat sorry asses safe. Sorry folks, that put a bind on economic situations. It cost lots of money to run a war, and even more for two of them.

There is lots of information that you are not privy to in the interest of national security. However, I know that is over many of your heads and presently there is no cure for long term ignorance. But Bush did keep all of you safe. It started in Afghanistan and made its way to Iraq. For those of you that don’t believe Sadam didn’t have WMDs, then you’ve joined the group of the intelligence challenged. For those of you that don’t believe American forces haven’t found any WDMs, you have no understanding of the term interest of national security. Those forces America is fighting in Afghanistan didn’t wave a magic wand and weapons to fight could appear. Weapons were being supplied through Iraq and believe it or not, nerve agent use was in you future. But that information was not going to be made public. Imagine the fear and panic it would stir up. Hence interest of national security. Bush Jr sacrificed his favoritism in the political arena for the majority of you whiners and political idiots.

The economy really started it downward crash during the last 2 years of the Bush administration. It was fuel by a democratic (socialist) party preying on the ignorance of the common people while pointing fingers at the current administration. It was a win / win situation for them. They had someone else to blame and common political idiots who would listen.

Enter Obama. He can be considered a finishing nail. Through the ignorance of the American people, Mr. Obama will usher in the final touches of socialism aided by those top socialist democrats in the House and Senate. Most of America is only looking for freebies now. Individualism is gone and group ignorance in place. That is exactly what your new socialist democrats are wanting.

PS - If you don't like what I said, I don't care. At least you do know what I think of the stupid folks that are embracing socialism and this false change.

Gary, as Sheila said, I love you,and I love America. You must also be a VETERAN OF FOREIGN WARS for you are a wise man from what you posted. I served 1968-72 in the USMC, and when I came home in 1970, no hippie pig ever spit on me, or called my a baby killer, cause I didn't kill any babies, but if some D.A., and I don't mean district attorney, had spit on me I would have kicked his unappreciated ass, or he would have killed me. I never thought I would live to be 30, but last month I turned 60. Thankyou, Jesus, "The Way, The Truth, and the Life, Amen, and if Bad Odor, Barack Hussein Obama doesn't like that he can and will get a chance to tell it to Jesus at the "Great White Throne Judgement", and I don't call Obama a socialist, I call him what he is, a COMMUNIST, anti-christ. Allen Keyes called Obama that on a video that I saw on Fox News.com and he was right, but I told my wife that I figured that out before I saw the clip. Obama, you are not the "Annointed One", Jesus Christ is the "Annointed One", and you or anyone can only go to Heaven by Jesus, and that is what Jesus said in the Holy Bible, Amen!

Thank God Republicans saw fit to pass Free Trade Agreement and give U.S. industries an incentive to local overseas. Thank God they found cheap labor and as a result, are able to bring in higher profits. Thank God for the GOP!

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